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critical latex mod (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

What are the options here? Can I have them be only visible when printing? Does it mirror itself if I print double-sided? Maybe pdf does not support these things, but to me these are the important questions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago) (3 children)

Am I the only one bothered by the random double spaces scattered through that text?

Edit: not the justified text in the image, the text below it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 minutes ago

Pratchett said the insanity of person can be judged by an excessive use of exclamation points, yet he haven't lived long enough to see the pure morbidity of someone who frequently uses double spaces and, coincidentially, contributes to LaTeX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

It looks like it's typographically aligned "justified", meaning it has a standard width and will automatically add gaps between words to make it fit the page. It looks cleaner and used in many legal and academic documents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 40 minutes ago

You're the second person who thinks I'm talking about the sample article in the image. I was talking about the mod description below the image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Latex formats lines like newspapers where the left and right side of the text box make clean vertical lines and the width of a space isn't guaranteed, which might be what you're referring to. Actually, I'm pretty sure accidentally typing a double space is impossible, latex will remove them and reformat the words as it sees fit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

But that text is not justified and the spaces are not evenly distributed. All spaces are equal except those few double spaces (which are also equal to each-other).

Edit: oh, you're talking about the sample image. I was talking about the mod description below the image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 46 minutes ago

You're referring to the tweet text? Latex can't help you there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

https://ctan.org/pkg/coffeestains?lang=en

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't know why, but I need this!

Vectorized coffee stains - yum

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

link to the original post: https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/173456117965/a-latex-mod-to-draw-coffee-cup-rings-on-your